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I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.
— Mel Brooks
In one take, I had to do 24 combat sequences, which is hard. It makes you think, 'I'd better get on my toes again.'
— Michelle Yeoh
Everything in the air that is beneath me, especially if it is a one seater ... is lost, for it cannot shoot to the rear.
— Manfred Von Richthofen
the Bank's proper role in a crisis as the 'lender of last resort', to lend freely, albeit at a penalty rate, to combat liquidity crises.42
— Niall Ferguson
Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.
— Camille Paglia
I used comedy as a way to combat my dyslexia. I was barely getting by scholastically, so I used a lot of humor.
— Joel McHale
I don't want truth, Palmer; I want smoke!"
Captain Ahearn: Waiting For Willie Pete — Byron Edgington
Captain Ahearn: Waiting For Willie Pete — Byron Edgington
He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.
— Ian McEwan
I warn you, sir, I am more than skilled in deadly combat," I said, hoping that was something someone more than skilled in deadly combat might say.
— Tarun Shanker
On 8 April 2003, SSgt Scott Sather, a combat controller, became the first Airman killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom. (32)
— McMillan Study Guides Inc.
The Professor shook his head. 'On the contrary, my motives are most simple, to advance science and to combat evil.
— Robert Rankin
Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.
— Sun Tzu
Look at me. Home boy wore combat boots to the beach. I know you don't want to call that your boyfriend, I know you don't.
— Lauren Conrad
The devil depends on a dark secret chance, but God does it now before your own eyes.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.
— Phyllis Schlafly
When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard.
— Adolph Malan
If you're not eating the right foods in the right amounts, all the exercise in the world won't combat the caloric intake.
— Jennifer Hudson
Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat.
— Mac Barnett
Catholics are born for combat.
— Pope Leo XIII
The slaves toiling in the temple of this god began to feel rebellion at his harsh tasks.
— Stephen Crane
I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
— Aaron Ciechanover
The combat [with ISIS] on the ground must be done by Muslim troops with our support. We must not get involved in perpetual warfare in the Middle East.
— Bernie Sanders
Aspirin and ibuprofen combat inflammation everywhere but the stomach and bowel; there they create inflammation.
— Mary Roach
Cooper was halfway out of his chair with realizing he'd moved, his body on full combat alert. His mind spinning,
— Marcus Sakey
Life on earth is hand-to-hand mortal combat ... between the law of love and the law of hate.
— Jose Marti
Suicide is now the leading cause of death for US service members and veterans, far outstripping combat-related deaths.
— Cara Hoffman
to have to combat one's instincts - that is the formula for decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness and instinct are one.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Joke exchanges are carried on in deadly earnest, like a verbal duel-mouth-to-mouth combat. Bang, bang: you're (linguistically) dead.
— David Crystal
I'm a T-shirt-and-jeans-with-combat-boots guy. And if I don't have to shave, I don't.
— Gabriel Macht
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
— A.J. Muste
Life is not an on and off switch. You don't have to have a military that is either in hard combat or is in the barracks.
— James G. Stavridis
His exhaustion is that of the gladiator after the combat; his labor was the whitewashing of a corner of the wall in his office.
— Kafka, Franz
The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat.
— Richard Marcinko
There's an idea that London is a planet on its own: that it's starting to diverge from the rest of the solar system. We need to combat that.
— Boris Johnson
A FRIGHTENED, ANGRY, FOUR-HUNDRED-POUND, antisocial chef with a combat shotgun never leads to anything good.
— Dean Koontz
killed fifteen men when I was in combat. Yeah, he was a nurse. Couldn't read the label on the medicine bottle.
— Peter F. Hamilton
There's not much pressure on the golf Tour. Walking to the first tee is in no way comparable to walking through the jungle in combat
— Larry Nelson
Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
— Charles Lamb
The FedEx truck backed into the driveway with an irritating beeping. The team was ready, combat gear on, locked, and loaded.
— Bob Mayer
Women shouldn't be in combat," said Vorkosigan, grimly glum. "Neither should men, in my opinion.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.
— Anna Seward
Both my New Hampshire great-grandfathers wore facial hair: the Copperhead who fought in the war and the sheep farmer too old for combat.
— Donald Hall
Always I am speaking English on behalf of fools
— Michael Pitre
A bullet from a gun does not make a distinction between practice and combat. You are training to be one and the same way in your life
— Miyamoto Musashi
The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight.
— Earl Sweatshirt
Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.
— Valerie Jarrett
My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq.
— Michael Hastings
The other boys started to complain that pushing off walls was movement, not combat. "There is no combat without movement," Ender said.
— Orson Scott Card
Combat is fear and management of fear far more than it is organized murder. Those who manage fear best will seize the day.
— Glen Cook
It is not the victory that makes the joy of noble hearts; but the combat.
— Charles Forbes Rene De Montalembert
If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.
— Gijs De Vries
It is the man on the ground with his rifle who ultimately wins the war.
— Bruce H. Norton
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.
— Barack Obama
As in combat, the key to this game was to get inside your opponent's decision cycle, making him react to what you were doing, rather than the reverse.
— Richard Phillips
When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.
— Lucy Liu
Single combat? We're leaving.
— Mark Lawrence
The more thou sweateth in training, the less thou bleedeth in combat.
— Richard Marcinko
Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me.
— Martin Of Tours
Each movement during combat honors the movements that the previous generations tried to transmit through the Tradition.
— Paulo Coelho
The point of books was to combat loneliness
— David Lipsky
My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.
— Mary-Louise Parker
This is an historic step forward in the world's efforts to combat a truly global threat.
— Kofi Annan
Power dressing is combat gear for the trip to the top.
— Valerie Steele